(94 quotes found)
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship”
Oscar Wilde
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend”
Page Smith
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
“A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.”
Elbert Hubbard
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
“Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.”
Chinese Proverbs
“A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man”
Edgar Watson Howe
“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”
Lord Chesterfield
